What’s It Called

[Vagus]

When you use two spoons to make a particular shape with maybe ice cream or similar, I just can't think of the word 🤔

[Redhelen72]

No that's the metal meat tenderiser!! Or the marble rolling pin!!

 

[Tilly2]

Nice thread this, Vagus.

The cook and chatter club.

Canary, the worst thing to wash is the garlic press. You have to use you nails to get all the gunge out.

[Vagus]

Oh it is, Tilly, I agree. Horrible.

[Canary42]

Don't knock it - I love my garlic press 😀

 

(OK, cleaning can be a bit fiddly)

[Tilly2]

You are the one that's knocking, Canary.

[Redhelen72]

Have you tried the rocking garlic press or a ruddy great knife?

[Tilly2]

My hands aren't strong enough to press a knife on to the garlic, Helen.

[Vagus]

Do they work Helen, the rocking garlic press I mean, not the knife. I can't get garlic small enough with a knife.

I have a very small plate with small sharp lumpy bits in the middle of it to grate garlic, bought in a market in France, blooming useless.

[Canary42]

IME, the rocking one is a liability - instead of succumbing to the pressure, the clove shoots out and on to the floor 😀😀😀😀

[Redhelen72]

Lmao off canary, a little salt on the board would stop that.

i liked it but prefer a large knife and the heel of my hand 

I did see on TikTok someone using a cheese grater - all I could think was what a mess 

[Canary42]

I did use a grater once as the recipe recommended it, but you're right, it made an awful mess. You can't beat the good old fashioned garlic press (in metal, I had one where the handles were plastic and they broke).

[pastafreak]

What's a rocking garlic press? Is it like a mezzaluna? 

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Mine was both deadly and rusty.

Talk about deadly...I asked for knives for Christmas. So my daughter got me a proper...very sharp 🔪🔪set. Took me a week to get brave enough to find a place for it and another 2 days to use one of the knives. Definitely do NOT try to slice to the last bit.

[Canary42]

I've got one of those too - didn't know it was called a mezzaluna - it also has a wooden base which matches the curvature.  I'm terrified when cleaning it though, it so sharp.  

[Canary42]

///What's a rocking garlic press? Is it like a mezzaluna? ///

Same principle.

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[Barmaid]

Vagus, if you let the pie cool first, your mash shouldn't sink.

I have not made fish pie since 2016!!!!

Quenelle sounds posh, but a dollop sounds more comforting.

[pastafreak]

I think I'd stick with a knife or traditional garlic press.

[barry1010]

Apparently the spoons you already have won't do, you can buy special quenelle spoons.

If you form the shape using only one spoon you make a rocher.  I've always called it a scoop.

[Vagus]

Barmaid, it was nice and cool so wasn't too bad, it was quite sloppy still though. To be honest, my posh quenelles were more like dollops, I quite enjoyed doing them even though they were a bit rough round the edges, it was therapeutic 😊

Yes, I watched a utube thing of someone doing it one handed Barry, quite different, and I agree, more of a scoop.